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Exihibition "I promise to love you", Kunsthal, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
This man asked us visitors what we thought was the value of this painting. I said I thought is was a fake. It looks muddy. Like the owner would allow someone to stroll around a museum with a painting worth tens of millions!
Bronze.
Ai Weiwei (born 18 May 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation, architecture, curating, photography, film, and social, political and cultural criticism. Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics. As a political activist, he has been highly and openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He has investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of so-called "tofu-skin schools" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In 2011, following his arrest at Beijing airport on 3 April, he was held for over two months without any official charges being filed; officials alluded to their allegations of "economic crimes" (tax evasion). In October 2011 ArtReview magazine named Ai number one in their annual Power 100 list. The decision was criticised by the Chinese authorities. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin responded, "China has many artists who have sufficient ability. We feel that a selection that is based purely on a political bias and perspective has violated the objectives of the magazine".
"This sound installation occupies a series of twelve cells in A Block. Inside each cell, visitors are invited to sit and listen to spoken words, poetry, and music by people who have been detained for the creative expression of their beliefs, as well as works made under conditions of incarceration. Each cell features a different recording. The diverse selection includes the Tibetan singer Lolo, who has called for his people’s independence from China; the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot, opponents of Vladimir Putin’s government; and the Robben Island Singers, activists imprisoned during South Africa’s apartheid era.
Ai Weiwei has described the texture of the individual voice as a particularly potent vehicle for human connection and communication. Heard inside a cell, speech and singing create a powerful contrast to the isolation and enforced silence of imprisonment."
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Ai Weiwei art exhibit "@Large" Alcatraz Island, November 2014
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New Order
Book :
Ai Weiwei
Contemporary Artists Series
Phaidon
2009
CD :
Stephan Mathieu
Radioland
Die Schachtel
DSART06
Drawings by Stephanie Quillon
Design by Dinamo Milano
Postcard :
Scott King
The History Of Rock'n'Roll (Manchester)
Polite.
2004
iTunes :
The Durutti Column
My Country
Factory
FAC244
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seen on the subway stairway at the brooklyn art museum station. where is my passport ? ai weiwei. brooklyn.nyc
Belvedere: Ai Weiwei - translocation – transformation (14.7. - 20.11.2016, Pressekonferenz) aiww.21erhaus.at | Foto: eSeL.at
Entry for HEROES SURROUND US. Eventually to be wheat pasted somewhere in Sheboygan. www.jmkac.org/index.php/heroes-surround-us-an-exhibition-...
The Sheboygan Project thesheboyganproject.org/
21erHaus: Ai Weiwei - translocation – transformation (14.7. - 20.11.2016, Pressekonferenz) aiww.21erhaus.at | Foto: eSeL.at